Valve unveils E3 plans

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 May, 2005

Half-Life 2 Xbox, PC's Lost Coast bit on show.

Both Half-Life 2 Xbox and Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast will be on show at E3 next week according to developer Valve Software, which made the announcement as it rolled out a service update on its Steam content download service.

HL2 Xbox will be on display on Microsoft's E3 booth rather than Vivendi-Universal Games; Valve having recently broken off its long-term publishing relationship with VU to the extent that none of its games will be handled by the publisher beyond August 31st.

Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast will be on display too. We're not sure where yet, but most of you aren't even going so it's hardly a big deal. The Lost Coast, in case you're confused, is a high-definition one-level episode for HL2 which takes a specific area of the game and makes it look ridiculously good-looking.

It's due out on Steam later this year for "customers that meet a specific set of high-end hardware requirements," and should not be confused with proper expansion Aftermath, which is also due out on Steam later this year. There's no word yet on whether Aftermath will be at E3, but we wouldn't be surprised if it was.

The update doesn't clarify whether either Half-Life 2 Xbox or The Lost Coast will be playable, but if we had to guess we'd say that the former will and the latter might not be.

We'll let you know for sure sometime next week!

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Comments (11) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • drumbaby #1 7 years ago

    MEH!

  • smelly #2 7 years ago

    "MEH!"

    ?!?!?! You're strange!

    Edited by 1 at 10/05/05 @ 13:20

  • Feanor #3 7 years ago

    Looking forward to Half-Life 2 on the Xbox since my PC can't run anything more than Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament.

  • Sorb #4 7 years ago

    "but most of you aren't even going so it's hardly a big deal"

    Yeah yeah, rub it in will you! ;)

  • Horse #5 7 years ago

    HL2 on xbox is the one reason I've refused to by a ninja gaming pc. I can't wait for it! I have no idea what it'll be like playing with a console controller but that's how I've played every FPS I've bought over the past two years, so hopefully it'll work.

  • Thamuhacha #6 7 years ago

    >and makes it look ridiculously good-looking

    There's more to life than being ridiculously good-looking.

    Are you sure that Valve will PHYSICALLY be there? They won't actually require you to go home and watch it on your PC?

  • jellyhead #7 7 years ago

    Will you HAVE to be online to play the xbox version or will it work out of the jewel case without faffing around?
    I think i can see microsoft rubbing their hands at the thought of all those people forced to join live just to dl a 5k cookie that goes on their xbox. perhaps.

  • Varsity #8 7 years ago

    "We're not sure where yet"

    Games for Windows...

    "Meanwhile Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, which is the new, single-player level created to introduce High-Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting to the Source engine, is slated to appear in the Games for Windows area at the show."

  • Varsity #9 7 years ago

    And more:

    "First up was word that the Xbox version of Half-Life 2 would indeed be playable at E3, a fact Valve director of marketing Doug Lombardi later confirmed to GameSpot. "

  • Jimmymd2 #10 7 years ago

    Please first buy a hard-drive. Activate your copy of the game on your new hard drive. Now connect to steam. Wait 4 to 5 hours for activation. Zzzzzz....

    Game was still worth it though.

  • Genji #11 7 years ago

    Great! New games!

    I agree with the "meh", by the way.